A drawing of a small bird perching across the open pages of a sketchbook. Its plumage is mainly grey - line work drawn with grey fineliner pens. Touches of pale yellow (plumage) and pink (beak and legs) done with water based marker pens.

15 ʻAkikiki (Oreomystis bairdi) a critically endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper. Small - 13 cm length; 12-17 g mass.
In 2015 asteroid number 7613 was officially named 7613 ʻAkikiki after this diminutive bird #AvianAugust2025

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A duck drawn across the double pages of a sketchbook. It has a blue flash of a colour on its underwing and is mottled brown elsewhere, with yellow-orange legs and feet. The beak has a green tinge (which means it is male - a female's is dull orange). Drawn with water based marker pens on stone paper.

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9 Koloa Maoli - Hawaiian Duck
Closely allied with the mallard, differing in that it is monomorphic (with similarly marked males and females).

I can see this challenge keeping me going well into Sept.

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I often forget what can be fun to draw. Here is a pen study I just did using a 2B pencil and a brilliant blue aqua marker.

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Late night scribble

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